Why Private Investments and Outside Activities Matter More Than Ever
As we begin 2026 and prepare for a busy year ahead, it is a great time for compliance teams to take stock of their employees’ private investments and outside activities.
EMPLOYEE COMPLIANCE
Outside Business Activities Compliance Software
Designed to simplify compliance while maintaining rigorous oversight, STAR helps organizations of all sizes navigate the complexities of employee activities outside the workplace.
CONFIGURABLE DECLARATION WORKFLOWS
Easy Declarations
- Create unlimited, custom-defined forms tailored to your organization’s needs.
- Incorporate cascading questions, custom fields, and specific activity types.
- Enable employees to easily disclose activities such as: outside employment, board memberships, ownership of private companies, immediate family employment, personal relationships, and speaking engagements.
Related Solutions
Ensure employee trading and investments meet all regulatory and internal policy requirements.
Gain comprehensive pre-clearance and post-trade oversight across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, 200+ tokens.
Simplify declarations for employees holding non-publicly traded investments.
Track and report gifts and hospitality—given or received—to stay compliant with anti-bribery regulations.
Easily capture and manage employee disclosures for external business engagements.
Enforce pay-to-play thresholds and minimize employee-related risk with purpose-built tracking and controls.
Monitor employee trading against market activity and public news to detect potential insider risks.
AUTOMATE & STREAMLINE DECISION-MAKING
Review & Approvals
- Automate declaration routing based on submitter’s role or activity type.
- Route to designated reviewers—line managers, department heads, supervisors.
- Support unlimited review and approval levels aligned with your business processes.
- Enable proxy declaration submission and reviews on behalf of authorized users, enhancing operational efficiency.
PROVE YOUR REGULATORY RIGOR
Certifications & Attestations
- Incorporate outside activity attestations into broader certification workflows.
- Schedule certifications in advance and automate reminders.
- Empower employees to flag inaccuracies, report new activities, and review and attest with ease.
- Customize certifications by user group, line of business, and location.
A 360 DEGREE VIEW OF ACTIVITY
Comprehensive Reporting & Insights
- Access powerful, flexible reporting tools to generate actionable insights and support strategic decision making.
- Build custom reports using declaration data and robust filters and sorting options.
- Create your own library of templates and reports and share with them others across your organization.
- Integrate Outside Business Activities with your own Data Warehouse to extend reporting and risk assessment capabilities.
Trusted by firms around the world
ALL IN ONE PLACE
Tailored to Your Organization’s Needs
Extensive Configuration
Create, configure, and manage workflows, review levels, and forms quickly through user-friendly configuration tools.
Role-Based Access
Apply configurable permissions and data visibility rules, down to user group or individual user level.
Seamless In-App Collaboration
Easy reviewer-employee communication via in-app Q&A functionality.
Streamlined Approvals and Notifications
Track approval statuses and stay updated with real-time email alerts for all stakeholders.
Flexible Proxy Rights
Define proxy delegations for both employees and reviewers.
Audit Ready
Comprehensive declaration history logs including declaration edits, hidden reviewer notes, and attachments to records.
Featured Resource
Certifications Process Checklist
Download StarCompliance’s Certification Checklist, providing 5 steps to a simpler, easier, more efficient certifications process.
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